If you have any cool images that might be manipulated into a Arrakis banner that would be helpfull too.

I was thinking of a banner all the way across the top of a desert mountain skyline. Day and night would be cool. Either a white sun in a silver sky with grey rocky mountains and yellow sand or a stary night with two moons.

A simpler would be Eyes of the Ibad. A graphic of the spice saturated eyes up in the left corner and a blue theme.

Whatever you go with, could you keep the banner down to a reasonal size?

That sucker on Arrakeen is 84 KB, for example, which is WAY too big IMO. (10 times the size of the current phpBB banner, for comparison.)

A cool theme (or skin) is nice and all, and should be distinctive, but above all it should be simple and fast to load. (Not everyone is on broadband, after all.) The board is about the content first, right?

Placing too much emphasis on form over substance is what killed another site, after all.

Just my 2.1644 yen's worth.

I have heard of only one mistake that doesn’t have an explanation for a careful reader...with an open mind. (And, no, I’m not going to tell you what it is!) —KJA

I don't like every writer's style; for instance, I have never been able to get through Ursula LeGuin, China Mieville, or Iain Banks, all of whom are critical darlings. —KJA

I...had written a bunch of Star Wars and X-Files books...that proved not just that I'm a hack, but that I could write in somebody else's universe... —KJA

This is the photo above edited quickly in MSpaint, Colour invert and a wee resize. It could be used to represent the polar ice caps of Dune, and the clouds would fit in as well. Another plus is it's only 35k.

There are a lot of interesting pictures of White Sands near where I live, including some nice black and whites that might be interesting. This one, for example, kind of looks like a worm has recently traveled by:

Tleilax Master B wrote:There are a lot of interesting pictures of White Sands near where I live, including some nice black and whites that might be interesting. This one, for example, kind of looks like a worm has recently traveled by:

Freak, when you do settle on a new theme, please make sure it's lightweight and loads just as quickly as this default one.

I just popped over to Haven for the first time in a while. I really like the theme over there, think it's neat and all that, and really hate to be critical...but with all the image files used in the theme, it takes forever to load.

Just something to keep in mind....

I have heard of only one mistake that doesn’t have an explanation for a careful reader...with an open mind. (And, no, I’m not going to tell you what it is!) —KJA

I don't like every writer's style; for instance, I have never been able to get through Ursula LeGuin, China Mieville, or Iain Banks, all of whom are critical darlings. —KJA

I...had written a bunch of Star Wars and X-Files books...that proved not just that I'm a hack, but that I could write in somebody else's universe... —KJA

There may be a mod for it. I havent looked yet, but I will. As it is, I do not believe the base package allows for it. One other thing we will be doing shortly is updating the forum software to the current version, which just recently came out. Perhaps it is in that one.